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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist blocked happened ice period purple storm wrote
What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
american-novelist dramatic offer stories
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
american-novelist buy instant last lose return wrong
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. Judith Krantz
american-novelist fact fiction interest party people press
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. Joe Wilson
american-novelist children fathers hearts turn
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
american-novelist few jobs knew possible time
Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married. John Hawkes
american-novelist bits felt nest strangely straw worked
But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different. Edmund White
american-novelist life moment truly
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
character far given great last movies tortured
As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor, James Franco
characters egyptian evolve greek premise
Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from? Richard Hatch
character kids lay lose stuff summer
It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.
character stay
You should always stay in character, ... Don't go up to your friends and say, 'What's up.' Scott Adams
character sky kevin
I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know. Brandon Routh
character numbers stories
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. Brandon Sanderson
character community canada
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups. Azim Premji
character giving acting
I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. Brendan Fehr
character pieces tests
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests. Brendan Fraser
creating time whether
Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do. Tom Hodgkinson
creating purpose missions
It’s not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life’s purpose and mission. Robert Kiyosaki
creating done matter
The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation. Robert Fritz
creating problem problem-solving
Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.
creating numbers people
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do. T. Harv Eker
creating people tools
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. Ray Kurzweil
creating life-is
Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing. Steve Jobs
creating minorities faster
I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. Steven Spielberg
creating design promise
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution. Sam Harris
tricks feels i-can
I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it. Shaun White
tricked
He was a follower. He got tricked easily. Richard Garnett